Automount
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Fri Dec 1 06:52:06 PST 2006
Robert Davison <rob_27_preston at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> I've just installed an external SCSI hard drive in the form of a sun StorEdge. All is working well.
>
> The StorEdge has two drives called da0 and da1 respectivly.
>
> I've put entries into /etc/fstab so that they are mounted on boot as /s and /t. My question is.......
>
> If I dont have the StorEdge running 24/7 and I reboot the server, the boot process fails when mounting the file systems as /s /t can not be reached.
>
> Is there anyway of writing an automount line in fstab that is smart enough to know that if the /s and /t are not reachable then continue with the boot process without stopping. My fstab enty is...
>
> /dev/da0s1d /s ufs rw 0 0
>
> I see that the cdrom has the entry
>
> /dev/cd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
>
> Is it simply a case of changing the mount option to rw,noauto ??
To start with, yes. If you don't use "noauto", then the disk *has* to
be there at boot.
You might want to put in some devfs rules to mount the disks when they
show up. Or an automounter.
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